Latinos push Obama on vacant post By Guillermo X. Garcia – Express-New After the withdrawal of Bill Richardson’s name as an Obama administration Cabinet nominee, Hispanic leaders say they expect the president-elect to name another Latino to head the Commerce Department. An Obama transition team source said a veteran California congressman, Xavier Becerra, has emerged […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Funds Tie Obama to Richardson Probe Figure By JUSTIN ROOD abcnews.com Financial records show the Obama campaign got more than $30,000 from California financier David Rubin, the target of an investigation into donations and possible “pay-to-play” deals involving New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Obama’s pick for commerce secretary. (more…) One of the things that concerned […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Combine all the bailouts so far and we are way over the $1 trillion mark. This does not include Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan bailout. The bailout so far: $7.8 trillion Michael Rainey As Peter Cohan noted earlier this week, the size of the corporate bailout in the U.S. is far larger than most […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My wife and I used to always wonder if folks who sported the “My boss is a Jewish carpenter” ever showed up late for work or fired. Apparently, Arne Duncan (President-Elect Obama’s pick for the Education Secretary post) can start his own line of bumper stickers as more people are consumed with his boss’ sun-kissed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Judah Freed of examiner.com writes~ “Obama last week tapped Mary Schapiro to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A former SEC commissioner, she now heads the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees all U.S. brokerages selling securities. Because her agency should have caught Madoff, charges that she was asleep at the wheel raises doubts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s your tolerance~ Warren On? Party Off By Richard Cohen washingtonpost.com Not that he was planning to attend, but Barack Obama should know that my sister’s inauguration night party — the one for which she was preparing Obama Punch — has been canceled. The notice went out over the weekend, by e-mail and word of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Parents using Obama as role model for their kids By DeNeen L. Brown THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON – Sherry Jones was driving son Malcolm, 13, to school recently when he mentioned something about some kid he didn’t like. Something about the kid being a jerk. Jones told him that wasn’t kind. When you speak of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ever since Obama announced his run for the Presidency, it has been Democrats who have been asking the question over and over again: “Is Obama Black enough?”. Apparently, some are still hung up on how to racially classify the President-elect. Obama’s True Colors: Black, White … Or Neither? (blackenterprise.com) Unless he is caught with a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…why not continue to play the race card? From: telegraph.co.uk Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ranks. He urged […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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